Flies

Selecting Bonefish Flies

April 15, 2013

How do you choose which bonefish fly to fish on any given flat? Keep these three basic variables in mind – color, size/weight and sizzle! Color Most of the time, you want the color of your fly to basically match the color of the flat. The match doesn’t need to be exact, but it should [...]

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Leader Length and Fly Weight

February 15, 2013

Today we continue our Alaska Guide Secrets series, in which you get the inside scoop direct from our guide crew at Alaska West. You’ve decided which fly to fish and maybe even which sinktip to use. Now you need to decide whether your leader should be 2 feet, 6 feet or 12 feet long. Got [...]

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Tube Flies for King Salmon

February 5, 2013

Our buddy and spey instructor Tom Larimer just posted a really good, really thorough article about tube flies and king salmon. Tom’s article covers Tube selection Stacking tubes Bullet weights Fly colors, and Rigging stinger hooks. If you like tube flies or king salmon (or Tom Larimer), you should swing on by his web site [...]

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Bonefish Fly Selection for South Andros

November 24, 2012

We have quite a few posts on our blog about bonefish flies, but somehow we haven’t addressed head-on the topic of “I’m putting together a box of bonefish flies for my trip to Andros South – what should go in it?” Today we answer that question! Let’s keep a few things in mind as we [...]

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All You Can Eat Crab

October 30, 2012

And that’s just the crab box! More on Gear at Andros South Backing for Bonefish Quigley’s Bonefish Tickler Simms SunSleeves

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This Should Work.

September 24, 2012

More on Bonefish Flies 5 Favorites for South Andros Readers’ Favorite Bonefish Flies Your Approach to Tying

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Pick Any Color, As Long As It’s Black

June 19, 2012

Scott Baker-McGarva. Head guide at BC West on the Dean. Black flies. Pick Any Color, As Long As It’s Black! Call me Canadian…since I am, but once I got called out for being a ‘Canuck’, simply because of my choice of steelhead fly color. It took place on the Sauk one fine spring day many moons ago. [...]

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King Flies – Size Does Matter

June 9, 2012

Jeff Hickman is a two-handed rod steelhead guide from Oregon who owns Fish The Swing LLC. He is a signature Idylwilde flies tier and Deneki veteran who will be joining us again this season to guide kings at Alaska West. Here is a quick little tip from Jeff about fly selection when targeting Chinook salmon. Size Matters It seems [...]

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Trout Snacks.

June 6, 2012

If our rainbow trout didn’t snack so much, they wouldn’t be so darned fat. More on Trout at Alaska West All About Alaskan Trout J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig When to Go Trout Fishing in Alaska

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